So you basically just admitted to being a douchebag cheater and said it didn't bother you that people are doing it. Charles Manson doesn't understand why he is in prison the rest of his life for murder, so whatever works for you. Unfuckinbelievable.
lol i dont cheat in BF. i cheated in CS back in 2001 when the cheats were all over the web.
This was before VAC and before Steam. Maybe you don't remember, but practically every server was CRAWLING with hackers. Aimbotting didn't even set you apart. Even if you out aimbotted them, they'd respawn out of nowhere and start shooting you.
The solution to that was to one up them again with the ghost camera hack... LOL. Nothing like a team of 8 cheaters running around de_dust and then out of nowhere a ghost glock fires and someone dies. Panic ensues.
Yes call me guilty or whatever, but that's how CS was back in the 1.0, 1.1 era... and even up to 1.3. I was in high school then. I obviously have a different value system today and hacking isn't really satisfying anything. Not to mention the fact that you need to pay is a bit outrageous now.
I get accused of cheating plenty of times myself, even by fellow clan members and people on my friends list, but the simple fact is when you reach a certain level of proficiency in gaming you begin to understand and feel the physics of the game as if it were a real world scenario. Thus, people like me who kick much ass at these games know when someone is cheating because they are doing things that not even me or my friends can do, which is bogus because we usually figure out all the holes and soft spots within the first week or two after release.
So many people live blindly and don't take it too seriously, but in order to achieve that top level of play that maybe only a group of dozens or a few hundred play at, you have to take it seriously. Thus I just don't bother playing or donating to the coffers of these companies and their employees because, at the end of the day, they really don't give a shit and aren't good enough to stop it to begin with....so what's the point?
I'm not sure how it works in BF3, but I'll use CS as my analogy because I'm a decent CS player. You could just camp down a doorway, wait for someone to cross, and yeah most cal-im players back in the day could hit a guy a few times running across a small gap, and maybe with a decent odd of headshotting. You could do the same with NO effort needed to stare at your screen until someone runs across your crosshair with an aimbot, and people could think you're decent. Obviously don't go for a 100% headshot kill rate. That's why the Reddit post says that a good number of people are hacking per server. It doesn't take much to hack and look decent. Hell you could look more map aware. Back in CS, there's times where you run past idiotic campers because it's too obvious if you just happened to search that corner. Sometimes you have to let them just shoot you in the back so you can say "wow dumbass spawn camper." Otherwise you'd make it too obvious right?
So not really sure about what you mean when people do things that just can't happen legitimately, but do you mean sitting in a tank and having it 180 and take out 2 guys in no time? Yeah a bit blatant, but I can guarantee you sitting in a tank MG with a wallhack in most maps can give you a huge advantage without it being obvious. Certainly if you're going to blow up walls all the time to kill people behind them you're exposing your wallhack, but I think there's more than a few times where we run and dance around tanks trying to get to a better position to flank it. Anyone with a wallhack on the tank can expose that and pretty much ensure if you step into visibility you're dead--and it doesn't take much skill to make it look semi-legit.
I can also imagine sitting in a chopper as the gunner having a huge advantage too if your wallhack labels your targets like they do in the old CS hacks. Everytime I'm a chopper gunner I feel like I'm panning around too much finding targets.